Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-09
IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
The Kildare Club on Its Way to the
ACKNOWLEDGES.

Ane hlIuare CluD on Its way TO the
4 GirondaCks.
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Everybody in So
ciety is talking of the dance which Mrs.
Marshall 0. Roberts has planned for the
end OF the month. Mrs. Roberts belongs
to that very old family, the Endicotts
Of Salem. The late Mr.. Roberts rose from
the industrial ranks. He prided himse t
on his house ou Fifth avenue and on his
art gallery. He used to say to the Artists {:
You see that space on the wall. 60 TO
work and fill in.' HIS widow, who,
curousIy enough, met him on the steamer
on which he was bringing his first wife'a
body from Europe, went to London last
spring, took furnished house, and made
something of mark in English society.
She is an exceedingly good ing woman,
and having very large income is able to
set the tone to good many "sets" in our
complex society.
The reception OF the we X was given
by Gen. Butter tieId and his wife. who was
Mrs. +. z. James. They are both seXa.
genarlans and nobody has forgotten their
marriage Ia Westminster Abbey, where
the Count of Paris was present and
Canon Farrar preached the sermon. Gen.
Butter1eld was formerly engaged t. a
young lady who lived at Richmond, Va,
He was taken suddenly ill, and his
hetrOthed was so anX !ous that she came
unexpectedly to New York. The marriage
was hastily broken of. After this the
Central met Mrs. James. VINO had an in-
come of $4,000. When he had proposed
and was accepted mis- betrothed went 10
WORMS and bought a trousseau that
would have been thought too gorgeous tor
princess of Is. They had taken the Min
turn residence on Fifth avenue and filled
1t with beautiful brio-a-brac.
The start Of the Kildare Club for the
AID rondacks has excited much interest.
lis leading spirit is DR.. seward Webb,
wno married daughter of the late W.
ID. Vanderbilt. Eve ybOdy remembers
he cOurtship, the difficulties made bv the
anderbilts and the ultimate triumph OF
love over parental objections. DR.. Webb
is evervbody's friend, and his leadership
OF the Kildare Club gave it imm diate
popularity. Its purpose Is to kill deer in
the AdirondacKs. Unfortunately. the
Legislature has paesed measure forbid
ding the sport: and venison cannot be had
in our mar6eis. SO the members, who
are all rich men, pass their time 10 the
mountains with rife shooting, oyster
lOasting, piling great logs on the
ire and singing such songs Of the olden
time as
The boar's head in hand bear,
Bedecked with bays and rosemary
And pray you, my martyrs, be merry,
On est{s in cOnUi0jO.
Society is once more fascinated with
the craze OF speculation. Its favOrite
themes OF discussion are railroads and
mines. "Can you tell me-" a Young lady
asked me a dinner, whether Jay Gould
really controls Jersey Central?' els it
true" demanded another, that Mr..
Conner has found bonanza in the
Phoenix Mine~ Our schoolgirls are get
ting versed ia the intricacies of options,
privileges and first mortgage bonds.
Our schOOlbOys are growing like Master
Fanfar BenOlton. In SardOu's play, who
speculated in marbles at 8. Wherever
you go there is an lncessant babble of
Wabash and Reading, of Lake Shore and
Nickel Plate, OF Sutro and Phoenix. The
artIce on "Millionaire Miners" in the
Times of Sunday, describing the good
fortune of Mackay and Jones. of
D. o. Mills and Washington Common,
has been as generally discussed in so,
ciety as If it were the dalnuest morsel of
gossip.
There is young gentleman In New
York society of whom the papers have
made fun as "Tommy Popgun." He has
gone to India, where he expects to
achieve great fame in the jungles. Pass
ing through England he was entertained
by Sir Thomas Brassev and Lady Brassey
on board their yacht, the Sunbeam, aud
his father fOndly shows a letter from
"Tommy" announcing how "Her Lady
ship" walks. how "Her Ladyship" eats,
how "Her Ladyship" dresses her hair.
At theend is a postscript which was
inadvertently shown TO visitor. Dear
Father: Please have this published in the
RnrIinnfNn Fraa praeo Mad I
Tommy Popgun's family have country
house at Burlington
Everybody was at the opera on Monday
night to see the first performances of
"Merin." One of the youngest and
prettiest debutantes OF the season made
a great sensation in the boxes. Well it
will hardly he believed, but she wears a
wig. would not be so ungallant as to men,
ton II were II not that she makes no Sc
cret of toe fact; she anuses her friends
by cooking the wig over her eye and
Otherwise humOrously disporting herself.
She IS a very charming, unaffected and
beautiful giri, and When she has wholly
recovered from her Illness and her halr
has grown again there will be no lovelier
BRIDE in New York.
AIT sue; dinners are all the fashion.
Society is permeated with grandes, danes
of the order of Nine. Edmond Adam
in Paris, who make much Of actors
and SINGERS and introduce them to the
best drawing rooms. Mrs. W. :. VIII
liams, wife OF the President OF the Gable
Road, is the foremost, among the ladies'.
She used 10 have Il quartette of her own,
as the late King Of Bavaria had mis- own
band Of musicians. SIZE mas now taken
up Mm,. TrebeIli, the contralto, and NJ.
Divide Musin, the volinist aud. is bring
ing them into society.
BY the way, Miss Fortescua is not going
to marry Mr.. Terry, hnr leading man.
There is still chance for the GarmOy ies
Of America. PAUL NJ. POTTER.
Rough on Rats"
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